footprint

So this quiz calculates how many planets we would need if everyone in the world had the same lifestyle as me. I've taken this quiz several times and the results are generally between 4 and 4.5 Earths. The planet can only regenerate resources at a certain rate and if everyone lived like me it would take more than 4 times as many Earths to regenerate fast enough.
As always the Services section of the United States ecological footprint is shocking, but sadly largely unavoidable for me. I'd like to lower my ecological footprint, but right out of the gate I see a lot of areas I cannot control. I live in the US and it is not in my power to move right now, so the Services section will have to stay the same for now. Shelter is another section that it is not in my power to change right now. My parents pay my rent and my property manager upkeeps the house and pays my utilities, because of those limitations I won't be focusing on the shelter aspect of my ecological footprint.
I'd really like to focus on the Food section of my ecological footprint for the next few months. To start with I'm going to try buying my produce locally from the farmers market or the co-op. It's more expensive and I see that as a big limitation, but right now I have a lot of food waste from bulk produce so I'll just buy less and local.
Speaking of food waste I want to start composting! All of my friends do it, my building already has a FoodPlus bin where the city picks the compost, and it's something I can do that has little to no cost burden on me.
The final thing I want to try is Meatless Mondays. I listened to an NPR story a week or so ago about eating "veggie positive" and I hope that starting with Meatless Mondays might turn into a vegetarian or more "veggie positive" diet. Raising cattle for meat is so hard on the environment and I eat a lot of red meat. My partner has type 1 diabetes and meat is "free" food for him, no sugar or carbs, which is one reason we do eat so much meat in my house.

I'll keep you all posted on how the food overhaul is going!